[ Thanks to Mayank
Sharma for this link. ]
“Technology students in India have very little exposure to Free
and Open Source Software (FOSS). This is primarily due to its
absence from the tech curriculum, which leaves just enough time for
some to pursue it on their dormitory computers. On top of it, lack
of encouragement and mentoring from the universities, ensures FOSS
fails to breach the ‘hobby’ barrier.“In line with its role as one of India’s leading universities,
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has launched a 6-week workshop to
expose more students to the benefits of FOSS. The program aims to
partner student programmers from local Delhi colleges with
bio-informatics experts from JNU to come up with a complete suite
of open-source software for bio-informatics…”